I love Guy Bourdin! He's my favourite photographer.
I saw his exhibition at the V&A in London which was amazing,and did a project on him for my French. My favourite part of the exhibition was the short film of a girl swivelling on a chair, and the notes and ideas he'd scribbled in his notebook, in French and English, which were hung up.

thanks for the pictures, fredo. please don't forget to credit your sources, i know you scan a lot of the work yourself but it's necessary to add this information as due to our policy we are to edit all uncredited pictures

I suppose sources mean books?
For Bourdin, the scan of Anouck Aimée come from the first number of FMR in french (the franco maria ricci revue), all the others are scanned in the book published in 2004 for the exposition Guy Bourdin at the Jeu de Paume (paris). For Blumenfeld, beaton, Maywald and Clarke, it's more difficult because I don't have anymore all the books (I take them in public librairy or I give them to my friends).
Blumenfeld : a little book published by fnac galeries (1984), Blumenfeld, le culte de la beauté (1996) and an other book I can't remember now.
Beaton : cecil beaton published by le chêne (1984) and two others books
Maywald : Willy Maywald by Elisabeth Pineau (2003) and an other book
Clarke : henry clarke, l'élégance des années cinquante (Herscher, Paris, 1986)
I will try to find the others titles for the holidays.
Fred
PS. last but not least, four others of my scans of Guy Bourdin

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thanks for the pictures, fredo. please don't forget to credit your sources, i know you scan a lot of the work yourself but it's necessary to add this information as due to our policy we are to edit all uncredited pictures

Anna, I'm sorry , my girlfriend went to the public librairy this afternoon, but she can't have all the books I scanned. And I will not have the time next week to search them. Even for Bourdin, I remember now I use an other book for some photos because they were better but unfortunatly I don't remember the title.
I think I will have the time to find all the books next summer. My next post will be send in august 2006
fred

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thanks for the pictures, fredo. please don't forget to credit your sources, i know you scan a lot of the work yourself but it's necessary to add this information as due to our policy we are to edit all uncredited pictures

Maybe the best fashion photographer but I would hesitate before calling him the best photographer in all contexts.

Guy Bourdin creates mise-en-scenes of personal surrealism and intimidation with ironic nods to sex, power, and the fashion world itself. Helmut Newton took aesthetic cues from and I would compare some of his gloss with Jeanloup Sieff.

However, his alienation asthetic has a correlation, I feel, with Ralp Eugene Meatyard, one of the best realist photographers along the lines of Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand, et al.

Lucybelle Crater & her good, good Mertonian friend Lucybelle Crater

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